“Now that Dorsey has bailed as a board member and principal funder, Bluesky’s DNA is basically [TESCREAL / Effective Altruist] people. It gets worse. Blockchain Capital LLC was co-founded by Steve Bannon pal Brock Pierce, a major crypto advocate, perennial presidential candidate, and close friend of Eric Adams. Pierce has dozens of other shady MAGA/Russia ties as well.”
“Now that Dorsey has bailed as a board member and principal funder,
LOLWUT? Run the fuck far away.
Also, Bluesky is not actually decentralized. It’s a single big silo, just like Twitter/X. They built their own “decentralization” protocol rather than adopt ActivityPub. It’s Embrace, Extend, Extinguish. Same as it ever was.
Is it really EEE though? There isn’t the “extend” part if they’re not extending ActivityPub, it’s just a competitor at that point, unlike Threads which was actually trying to be ActivityPub compatible (and everyone immediately saw right through it)
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LOLWUT? Run the fuck far away.
Also, Bluesky is not actually decentralized. It’s a single big silo, just like Twitter/X. They built their own “decentralization” protocol rather than adopt ActivityPub. It’s Embrace, Extend, Extinguish. Same as it ever was.
Is it really EEE though? There isn’t the “extend” part if they’re not extending ActivityPub, it’s just a competitor at that point, unlike Threads which was actually trying to be ActivityPub compatible (and everyone immediately saw right through it)
Indeed https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguish